Yup, quite agree with that. For instance when grabbing data from a database, some columns may be empty, though initializing the hash before fetching the data would be a real pain. So I often use something like

no warnings;
print Dumper(\%bighash);
use warnings;
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but your

no warnings 'uninitialized';
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is a neat trick, maybe I'll try this one next time.